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Verdict:

Perfect Fitness Multi-Gym

Pros:

Highly-adjustable pull-up bar. Can adjust vertically to accommodate moldings of different widths; depth can be adjusted to fit walls of different thickness. Side pads ensure it does not chip off paint nor damage the surface

Cons:

Below the long gray bar that sits on the top of the door frame is the white metal frame of the pull up bar, which may scratch the paint at the top of your door frame

Verdict:

Amazingly adjustable to fit varying widths, depths & heights of door, so long as your frames don't scratch easily this is one of the best doorway leverage bars you can buy

Verdict:

JFit Deluxe

Pros:

This is the widest door frame pull up bar, the only one to accommodate 40" doorways and can also be used in narrow passage ways

Cons:

The rubber hand grips move off center when the bar is extended (as per image), though they can be moved this is not the easiest to do and there are reports of it bending under heavy weight when extended to widest lengths

Verdict:

Great for wide door frames / narrow passage ways if you're not near the weight limit of 250 lbs

Iron Gym Extreme

Pros:

Excellent customer satisfaction, easy to assemble, full support for wide grip and slightly wider than the other door frame leverage bars

Cons:

If you have non standard door sizes, door frames or tight space around your door this may not fit

Verdict:

Second only in popularity to its smaller cheaper brother product, if you have standard sized door ways with a bit of room either side and want an all round great pull up workout, this is the bar for you

Verdict:

GoFit Chin Up Bar

Pros:

Open of the cheapest chin up bars available and comes with two sets of mounting brackets so it can be used at multiple heights

Cons:

The mounting pieces on the bar are not totally flat and it doesn’t sit flush against the door frame and moving the bar from one set of brackets to another can also be difficult

Verdict:

The design of the mounting brackets can prevent you from shutting your door and it can be a challenge to move the bar from one position to another, once that’s said this is a great budget chin up bar and one of the only ones with multiple mounting brackets

CXP Chin Up Bar

Pros:

5 different grip positions give a great variety of pull up variation, including parallel and wide grip. This is ideal for wide doorways up to 37”

Cons:

The support bars on the side and plastic pieces behind the grips have the tendency to damage soft doorframes

Verdict:

Best for those looking for a chin-up bar with great workout variety, unless you have soft door trims that will damage easily. With three different handle bars and over 12 different exercises you can do with this, it’s a great choice of wide doorway multi gym

Verdict:

Stud Bar

Pros:

The strongest pull up bar around, plenty of head room, can be mounted to either the wall or ceiling

Cons:

One of the more expensive bars

Verdict:

If you're happy to pay the extra, you won't be disappointed, this is the highest quality ceiling or wall mounted pull up bar available and the lifetime warranty means it's the last bar you'll need to buy

Verdict:

Elite Trapeze

Pros:

One of the few lightweight portable bars, easy to assemble & disassemble. You can adjust the height of the bar to perfectly fit you and it has no perishable material so is also suitable for outdoor use. Much more sturdy than the All in One.

Cons:

Less stable than the heavier non portable pull up bars, relatively expensive and the side support height does not adjust, so you need very high ceilings

Verdict:

Most stable portable standalone pull up bar, ideal for outdoor use best suited for those prepared to pay extra for portability and stability.

Ultimate BP Wall & Ceiling

Pros:

Ideal for CrossFit with good support for kipping pull-ups, ring dips and TRX suspension training

Cons:

No installation template provided

Verdict:

Very well priced for this type of bar this is a great choice if you’re looking for a strong reliable reasonably priced bar that mounts on either the ceiling or wall with plenty of room for kipping or suspension training

Bowflex BodyTower

Pros:

Cons:

Short towers are not ideal for everyone, also the indent curved design on the pull up bar is not great for narrow grip pull ups.

Verdict:

This is a very solid power tower; the only one sturdy enough for TRX suspension training. Ideal if you've got a relatively low ceiling, it's averagely priced but what you get is far above average quality.

Stamina Doorway Trainer

Pros:

Cons:

Limited in the range of door sizes it will fit and max user weight is not as high as some other doorway pull up bars

Verdict:

If you have a doorway somewhere between 28" and 34" wide and no more than 5.5" deep and you are not approaching the 250lb limit this is a great cheap buy

Finding the Right Pull Up Bar for You

There are hundreds of different pull up bars available, they’re all relatively cheap but have different features.

This page will help you find the bar right for you.

We’ve selected what we believe to be the very best pull up bars and built the above filterable Product Attribute List (PAL) so you can find the one right for you.

Price

Click the price details button on any of the bars to see their current price on Amazon.

They are all categorized relative as either Cheap, Average of Expensive, this is based on the type of pull up bar.

For example the free standing pull up bars are generally more expensive than the doorway bars, so you may see a free standing pull up bar classified as cheap when it’s more expensive than an average priced doorway bar – this is because it’s cheap when compared to other free standing bars.

Popularity & Customer Satisfaction

Popularity on it’s own is not that useful to you, what you really need to know if which bars are the most popular and have satisfied customers. All bars featured here are both popular and have good customer satisfaction levels.

Some are more popular than others so we’ve ranked them relative to each other, taking into account both the popularity and the customer satisfaction, we’re ranked them relative to each other as either Excellent, Very Good or Good.

Number of Grip Positions & Wide Grip Support

The number of grip positions determines how many different type of pull up movements you can do with the bar, the bars featured here have either 1, 3 or 5 grip positions.

Bar Type

There are 5 types of pull up bar, determined by how they are fixed in position:

Door Frame Leverage – Sit in your door way, resting on the top of the door frame and don’t require any screws of fxings, when you hang on them they use your weight as leverage to keep the bar in place.

Telescopic Doorway Bar – A single bar which fixes in your doorway between the frames, these twist to expand and either fix into safefty cups which are screwed onto the inside of the door frame or simply sit in place from tightening in position.

Wall Hung – Bolt onto a wall, either external or internal, fixing bolts are positioned at the same standard width as wall studs so they can be fixed to dry walls.

Ceiling Hung – Depending on the bar, bolt onto either to an exposed joist or a ceiling step or to ceiling studs.

Free Standing – These are not attached to anything, but are heavy enough with a wide enough foot print to stand alone.

Door Opening Width

The most common problem people have when buying a doorway pull up bar is making sure it fits their door frame. For all door frame leverage bars, the requirements of the door trim width, trim thickness and wall thickness are roughly the same but the door opening width varies.

The width of the Single Doorway bar type also varies, so you can use the Door Opening Width filter above to find a bar that will fit in your doorway. For more information about door frame sizing look at the graphic on Will the doorway pull up bar fit my doorway?.

Supported User Weight

Depending on the type of pull up bar the user weight it will support is different, varying from 220 lbs (100 kg) to 600 lbs (272kg). Generally speaking the Telescopic Doorway bars have the lowest maximum user rating, the door way leverage are next, with the with the wall / ceiling mounted bars supporting the heaviest user weight.

Popular Pull up bar Videos

Here are some of the most popular pull up bar reviews and general videos from youtube:

How To Create A Pull Up Bar At Home – by Mike Chang

Iron Gym Total Review – by JimsReviewRoom

Doing Pull ups Without a bar – by Brett Koppe

How to use your P90X Pull up Bar – by Carey Potts

The Iron Gym Extreme almost identical to the P90X Bar but a fraction of the price

Power Tower vs Free Standing Pull up Bar

A power tower is a standalone piece of gym equipment which provides you with multiple exercise “stations”, each station allows you to perform a different type of exercise, with the most common being:

Pull ups

Dips

Knee Raises

Push ups

Sit ups

You’ll also see some stand alone pull up bars, which are not full power towers, like the Trapeze’s, these provide you with the pull up bar feature and dip bars, however they don’t have any further bars or pads for knee raises, pushups or sit ups.

Power Tower Workout Exercises

Using a power tower for Pull up Workouts

Each stand alone pull up bar can be used for pull up workouts, all of the power towers have foam padded grip handles and can be used for both narrow and wide grip pull ups.

The trapeze type portable pull up bars don’t have foam grips (which makes them great as an outdoor pull up bar, as there’s no material to get damaged), but the dip bars on both the trapezes as well as the Bowflex Power Tower can also be used for neutral grip pull up workouts.

Kipping on a Free Standing Pull up Bar

A kipping pull up is a very popular as part of CrossFit and involves swinging your hips and using the momentum to help lighten your weight and make it easier to pull up. While it is possible for those of a lighter weight to get away with kipping on the heavier power towers, it is not something that any of the manufacturers recommend.

The horizontal forces created during your swing in a kip pull up, can easily tip a tower and finish with you either on top or underneath it on the ground.

Using a Power Tower for Muscle Ups

A muscle up is the combination of a pull up and a dip into one motion, you pull yourself up so your chest is above the bar then continue in a dip motion pushing all your upper body up then reversing the motion back down.

As with kipping, a muscle up is not something supported by any of the manufactures because of the risk of tipping the tower. That said, if you can avoid swinging too much it is definitely possible with the heavy power towers – just remember what was said about kipping above and don’t swing too much.

Power Tower for Vertical Leg Raises – Great Ab workout

You can use a power tower for leg raises which isolates your core muscles giving you an excellent ab workout. Here’s how to perform vertical leg raises:

Hold on to the padded arm rests

Lift your legs by flexing your hips and knees until your thighs are parallel with the ground

Lift your knees as high as you can towards your chest

Slowly lower your knees back down so your thighs are parallel with the ground again

Repeat your reps

If you want to target your obliques (muscles under the love handles) instead of raising your knees towards your chest rotate them left and right.